Category: How-to-Teach

How Many Books Is That?: Modeling Amazon Sales Rank

A few months ago– just before the paperback release of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog— Amazon started providing not only their Sales Rank data, but also sales data from Nielsen BookScan. Of course, the BookScan data is very limited, giving you only four weeks, and the Sales Rank data, while available over the… Continue reading How Many Books Is That?: Modeling Amazon Sales Rank

Hello, Southern Maryland: Talk Wednesday at St. Mary’s College

I’m in last-minute-revision mode here, made mroe frantic by the fact that SteelyKid developed a fever yesterday, and had to be kept home from day care. I did want to pop in to note that I will be giving the Natural Science and Mathematics Colloquium at St. Mary’s College in Maryland tomorrow, Wednesday the 13th.… Continue reading Hello, Southern Maryland: Talk Wednesday at St. Mary’s College

What Every Dog Should Know About Quantum Physics, Now Streaming

A few weeks ago, I gave a talk based on How to Teach Physics to Your Dog for the University of Toledo’s Saturday Morning Science program. At that time, their local PBS affiliate recorded the talk, for use on their very nice streaming video site, Knowledgestream.org. My talk is now up, and the video is… Continue reading What Every Dog Should Know About Quantum Physics, Now Streaming

Hey, Ho, Northern Ohio

Just a quick reminder that I’ll be giving my “What Every Dog Should Know About Quantum Physics” talk (same basic one from Tuesday night) as part of the Saturday Morning Science program (pdf) at the University of Toledo tomorrow, Saturday the 19th. The talk will be at 9:30, with breakfast beforehand. If you’re in the… Continue reading Hey, Ho, Northern Ohio

“What Every Dog Should Know About Quantum Physics” at New Paltz Tuesday Night

I’ve still got work to do today, but I did want to pop in quickly to note that I’ll be giving my “What Every Dog Should Know About Quantum Physics” talk tomorrow night at 8 p.m. in the Coykendall Science Building Auditorium, at SUNY New Paltz. It’s part of the Mid-Hudson Astronomical Association meeting, and… Continue reading “What Every Dog Should Know About Quantum Physics” at New Paltz Tuesday Night

Upcoming Appearances: New Paltz, NY and Toledo, OH

Another shameless self-promotion post, but since I was confirming some arrangements this morning, I thought I’d throw up a post, so: – On March 15, two weeks from yesterday, I will be giving a talk for the Mid-Hudson Astronomical Association at 8pm on the campus of SUNY-New Paltz. If you’re in the downstate NY sort… Continue reading Upcoming Appearances: New Paltz, NY and Toledo, OH

Progress Report: No Proposal Outline Survives Contact with the Writing Process

Blogging will continue to be minimal, as I’m buried in grading, and feeling significant time pressure regarding the book-in-progress. I thought I’d pop up briefly, though, to provide a look at the current status of the book-in-progress. The way this process works (or at least has worked for me) is that I write up a… Continue reading Progress Report: No Proposal Outline Survives Contact with the Writing Process

Talking Dogs Are Big in Italy

I haven’t been as relentless about flogging How to Teach Physics to Your Dog (now available in paperback!) as I was last year, because it gets kind of exhausting. I do have a vanity search set up on Google Reader that points me to the occasional review– this one, for example, so I still see… Continue reading Talking Dogs Are Big in Italy